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Words of Wisdom - QuotesFar and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone. No man chooses to become either a philosopher or a poet; these callings choose the men for themselves. The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions. There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing. It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. If you don't gamble, you'll never win. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music. To be a fool at the right time is also an art. One seventh of your life is spent on Monday. Don't confuse excellence, which is achievable, with perfection, which is elusive. A mind is like a parachute; it only works when it is open. If you must prove anything to anyone, either it's not worth it or you're not. You are only as wise as others perceive you to be. If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. The Prydain Chronicles Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? They come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds. If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true. If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there. The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right... If luck comes, who comes not? If luck comes not, who comes? The important things are always simple. The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. Life is like a piano... What you get out of it depends on how you play it. Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease. He who possesses most is most afraid to lose. To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it. Isn't the best defense always a good attack? Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. The most difficult thing about being humble is not being able to brag about it. The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for. Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a "fool" so that he may become wise. If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day. As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself. Winner Takes Nothing A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit. Wanderers in the land of Osten Ard are cautioned not to put blind trust in old rules and forms, and to observe all rituals with a careful eye, for they often mask being with seeming. The Qanuc-folk of the snow-mantled Trollfells have a proverb. 'He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.' More bluntly, new visitors to this land should take heed: Avoid Assumptions. The Qanuc have another saying: 'Welcome stranger. The paths are treacherous today.' The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, Thorn) Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there. He who has never failed somewhere... that man can not be great. Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. The more opinions you have, the less you see. |
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